Giovanni (Virginio) Schiaparelli - Honors and Awards for Giovanni Schiaparelli

Astronomer, born in Savigliano, NW Italy. He studied at Berlin and at Pulkova, Russia, and became director of Brera Observatory, Milan. He discovered the link between meteor showers and comets, observed double stars, discovered the asteroid Hesperia, and termed vague linear features on Mars as ‘canali’ (1877).

Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli (March 14, 1835 – July 4, 1910) was an Italian astronomer.

He observed objects in the solar system, and after observing Mars he named the seas and continents.

Honors and Awards for Giovanni Schiaparelli

Asteroids discovered: 1

69 Hesperia

April 26, 1861

Awards

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1872) Bruce Medal (1902)

Named after him

Asteroid 4062 Schiaparelli Schiaparelli crater on the Moon Schiaparelli crater on Mars

Obituaries

(Italian) AN 185 (1910) 193/194 ApJ 32 (1910) 313 MNRAS 71 (1911) 282 PASP 22 (1910) 164